understand
Usage
Example Sentences
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Leaders need to understand the problem, and how to fill the gaps.
Once regimes understand that their most guarded moment—the moment after power breaks—can be observed and interrupted, they govern more cautiously, more suspiciously, more slowly.
He warned, “Risks may be growing faster than our ability to understand and mitigate them. Economic uncertainty is already high—we cannot afford to add financial instability to the mix.”
“I think that when this market is ready to go down,” Sosnoff said, “it’s going to be for reasons we don’t understand — not for some publicized war.”
From MarketWatch
"I completely understand such language is unacceptable and immediately apologised after the game."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
